"he went out on his balcony to smoke and fell to his death " Smoking kills, girls and boys -- don't do it!

LBC

Ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov who criticised Putin’s Ukraine invasion dies in fall from building in St Petersburg | LBC

An acclaimed Russian ballet dancer has died in a fall from his residential block in St Petersburg.

Yes, well, it is dog food, but you could still run your product name through a multilingual dictionary. I spoke to the owner of the shop, and he was not aware that this actually means something in English. 😭

"While most states with bathroom bans restrict them to grade school settings, only nine states currently bar transgender adults from some public bathrooms—Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Texas (Odessa), Utah, and now Ohio will become the tenth. " What despicable people must you be for banning any human being from using a toilet?!

Ohio Passes Sweeping College Trans Bathroom Ban, First In Nation After Election

The bathroom ban was attached to the "College Credit Plus" program designed to help students enter dual enrolment, and is the first anti-trans law ...

#usa

manpageblog is a small, lightweight blog engine written in Python; it creates pages which look like man pages (Unix-like manual page)

GitHub

GitHub - gyptazy/manpageblog: manpageblog is a small, lightweight blog engine written in Python and offers several advantages in a look of a man page (Unix like manual page).

manpageblog is a small, lightweight blog engine written in Python and offers several advantages in a look of a man page (Unix like manual page). - ...

This isn't written in Java, doesn't require Kubernetes, NodeJS or three distinct NoSQL document stores, runs sans Docker or MySQL, and I horribly miss simple software like this. @Terence Eden wrote a two-file Fediverse bot

GitLab

Terence Eden / ActivityBot · GitLab

A single PHP file which acts as a basic ActivityPub bot server.

/via

Mastodon

Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)

OK! Want to self-host your own bots now #BotsInSpace is going away? I've made the *simplest* possible server just for you! https://gitlab.com/ede...

"But don’t make the mistake of calling just Open Source an alternative – users need not only software, but also mountains of services, and those still have to be found somewhere, and that’s won’t be cheaper or simpler just because the software is free."

Bert Hubert's writings

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech - Bert Hubert's writings

Now that we’re increasingly concerned about the dominance of ‘big tech’, Open Source is often mentioned as an alternative, especi...

Your bloody Nachfüllbeutel is only wiederverschliessbar because I own a stapler and a full roll of duct tape!

RIP Android-Password-Store (

GitHub

Archiving Android Password Store · android-password-store/Android-Password-Store · Discussion #3260

Hi, Over the past 3 years the pace of development in APS has steadily fallen off as maintainers including myself have moved on to other things. I n...

), the Android app for pass ("the standard unix password manager")

Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager

Pass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GPG and Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.

Say, @Andy S-C and @Roger Light: #MQTT's and #Mosquitto's 25th birthday are this month. Have you chaps already designed the commemorative respective stickers? 🙂

Tesla Cybertruck ‘too fugly’ for European roads

the Guardian

Tesla Cybertruck ‘too big and sharp’ for European roads, say campaigners

Questions raised about registration in Czech Republic of one of first models to reach continent